To think of the less travelled path

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Beycesultan Mound with ducts for heating 1000 years before we know of it.

The writing about the travel along the meander in an inflatable canoe along with the stories from the maps of the past is like Rephotography.
One thing that kept rearing up in the book is the pristinity of a foreigner as a stranger with a possibility of medicinal knowledge, different ways of grooming and the xenophobe's horror. In the current global world, people can ease into a culture by reading up on it before hand.
Strangers in the villages he stops for the night treat him with green almonds.